Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way.

made it thur a day of server down 270 + tasks reported when server came up.
with plenty in cache. First time ever. I also go a few astopusle wu ( 155 min runtimes once cpu freed up) Let the good times roll.


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@Snowmain

that is a very interesting list ;) thanx

in the next some weeks my Nvidia-GT630 get a new friend that is not in the list.
im courious about the WU's/$ :D

greetings
ralf
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Boinc runs here on:
Intel i7-3770K (Limited to 6 Cores)
Nvidia GT-630 (Fermi)

@ The Chosen.....and everybody else.


For my 2 cents the 229$ on the gtx 570 is the price performance Delta.
My hope is that Sept 16th when the newest GTX 650 and 660 come out it will push down the price of gtx 570. Here's hoping.

Finding power consumption #'s on the mobile processors was very difficult. Since the likelyhood of them being used is so low when I foujnd a number I didn't look any further...so they very well could be wrong( as any of these numbers could be wrong).
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This brings up another question: Since there is no Lunatics NVIDIA GPU app for Astropulse (as of yet...), will my machine run GPU Astropulse WU's using the standard SETI app, or do I need to add something the the app_info file? And if so, what? The answer may be out there somewhere, but a search here and on the Lunatics site hasn't turned it up...

yes, once you enable AP tasks via your web preferences, your host should eventually download the stock nVidia OpenCL Astropulse binaries, and tasks will of course follow when they become available.

Thanks for the reply. The stock binaries haven't appeared yet, but maybe I need to de-select AP, update, and then re-select AP.

you really only need an entry for it in the app_info.xml if you want to run multiple tasks in parallel/increase GPU utilization/decrease CPU utilization/mitigate GUI lag/etc.

This brings up another question -- where can I find info on what all can be done via settings in the app_info.xml file??? Can multiple stock AP tasks be executed in the GPU? I didn't think that was possible...

the <count>n</count> statement is the one that controls the number of tasks running in parallel, where n=1 corresponds to 1 task, n=0.5 corresponds to 2 tasks, n=0.33 corresponds to 3 tasks, and so on and so forth...

Well, I know about <count> and I finally found some info on <flops>, but there is stuff in there that I don't entirely understand (for example, what's <avg_ncpus> mean?). It would be nice if the parameters in the app_info file were documented someplace...

I am currently running two SETI tasks in the 520 -- they appear to complete in somewhat less than twice the time for a single task, so It looks like I am coming out ahead. GPU-Z shows 99% GPU Load, 74% Memory Controller Load, 466 MB Memory Used and GPU Temp of 79 deg C when running two SETI enhanced tasks in parallel.

But it would be nice if I could get Fred's test program to run on my machine...

so i suppose you could try 3 simultaneous tasks to see if they finish in less than three times the run time of a single task by itself.

so i suppose you could try 3 simultaneous tasks to see if they finish in less than three times the run time of a single task by itself.

If you look at the numbers posted in this thread, you'll see that for most video cards 2 is the number.
Only highend cards get any benefit from 3, on most cards you end up doing less work.

Or you could just download MSI Afterburner and design you own custom fanspeed vs. Gpu temp Curve.

Max fan speed 100%.
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Or you could just download MSI Afterburner and design you own custom fanspeed vs. Gpu temp Curve.

Max fan speed 100%.

I do not have an MSI motherboard or MSI graphics card. Will it work on any system?